A Brookwood man was sentenced by a federal judge Monday to more than seven years of prison for wire fraud and taking bribes when he served as a Coast Guard officer.

Nathan Allen Dunn, 30, will serve 87 months in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty in January to charges that he accepted bribes from Huffman Earl Monk, the owner of 12 freight brokerage companies, to issue over-priced and fake contracts in his role as a Coast Guard transportation administrator, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Dunn was ordered to pay $779,549.85, the total loss to the country on the fraudulent contracts, to the U.S. Treasury.

According to prosecutors, Dunn received over $220,000 in payments from Monk over a two-year period that began when Dunn and Monk entered into an agreement following a September 2009 meeting. Dunn coordinated the shipping of large freight between Coast Guard bases as his primary duty.

"Shortly after Monk and Dunn entered into their agreement, Monk began giving monetary bribes to Dunn by providing him with debit cards linked to several of Monk’s business bank accounts," the U.S. Attorney's Office news release stated. "In order to inflate the profits Monk and Dunn would earn from each contract, Monk encouraged Dunn to fraudulently manipulate various data entered into the TransCom computer system in order to artificially inflate the price of the shipping contracts Dunn steered to Monk’s freight companies. Dunn and Monk also engaged in creating at least six false shipping contracts for military freight shipments that did not exist, thereafter awarding the contract and profits to one or more of Monk’s companies."

Dunn received a cut from each of the contracts, with half of the fraudulent contract payments going to him, prosecutors said.

Monk was sentenced on April 29 in Norfolk to 63 months in prison and three years of supervised release for wire fraud and for bribing Dunn. Monk was also ordered to pay a fine of $15,000 and $779,549.85 in restitution.

This case was investigated by the United States Coast Guard Investigative Service and the Department of Homeland

Security, Office of the Inspector General, Washington Field Office, with the cooperation and assistance of the Coast Guard Surface Forces Logistics Center. Assistant United States Attorneys Stephen W. Haynie and V. Kathleen Dougherty prosecuted the case.